On the way to a lunch meeting of her local book discussion group, the Uppity Women, small town Southern librarian Aurora ‘Roe’ Teagarden is shocked and dismayed to find her sister in law Poppy lying bloody and dead right outside her own back door.

It’s no problem for the beloved small town librarian in this wonderfully cozy installment in the adored Aurora Teagarden mystery series. When bodies start dropping, it’s up to Roe to reprise her role as amateur sleuth and stop the carnage before it gets out of hand.

Roe’s not so crazy about the whole thing…Īnd neither is a secret, vicious murderer.

Everyone in Lawrenceton suddenly goes movie crazy, mentally composing awards acceptance speeches while prancing around the fringes of the set awaiting discovery. Roe is disturbed to discover that the film’s crew includes her stepson, who despises her, as well as an actress set to play her in the film. Of course he’s not alone he brings with him a cast and crew the size of which nearly overwhelms the tiny excitement starved town. Now Robin is back in town, set to begin filming the movie version of the terrible events of so many years ago. Librarian Aurora ‘Roe’ Teagarden teamed up with true crime writer Robin Crusoe to catch the killer, and the results of their investigation have gone down in Lawrenceton history. In the first installment of the Aurora Teagarden series, Real Murders, the small town of Lawrenceton, Georgia, was beset by a series of horrific murders. In this fifth book in Charlaine Harris’s series blending mystery, humor, and a hearty helping of Southern charm, there’s just no telling what they’ll find. Now the existence of the baby is only the first question of many such as, Where did Craig come from? Who went after him with the ax? And why? Roe and Martin abandon the sunny warmth of Georgia for snowy Corinth, Ohio, hoping that tracing Regina and Craig’s steps will get them some answers. Before anyone can figure out what’s going on, Regina disappears, leaving behind her baby and her husband, Craig, whose brutally murdered corpse is discovered on the outside steps of Roe and Martin’s home. The next is the arrival of Martin’s flighty niece Regina, who shows up unannounced with a baby no one knew she was expecting. But when mild mannered Darius Quattermain goes crazy in her backyard when he should be stacking firewood, it turns out to be just the first in a string of troublesome events. She’s newly and quite happily married to Martin Bartell, happy to be back at her part time job at the library, and settled into her dream home just outside Lawrenceton, Georgia and there haven’t been any dead bodies in Roe’s life for quite a while. Everything in Roe’s life finally seems to be going her way. Charlaine Harris’s beloved amateur sleuth, liberated Southern belle Aurora Teagarden, makes her long anticipated return in this charming mystery about family secrets and small town intrigue.

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